Author: Enedina Holguin Mendoza-Davila
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512754552
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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At special events, the necessity of appropriate readings serves a special need for many who find themselves speechless in their attempt to express the emotion of their heart. This book has in its entirety something for everyone.
Author: Vidaluz Meneses
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988781214
Category : Poets
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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This volume introduces to English readers the life and work of Vidaluz Meneses (b. 1944), one of the most acclaimed poets writing in Central America and a public figure of distinction during the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua (1979-1990), when she held leadership positions in the new Ministry of Culture. Although poems from her first books appear in anthologies published around the world-Great Britain, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and the United States-no selection in English has included more than a five-poem sampling of her work, and the total number available in English from all published sources is under twenty. Hispanophone literary critics know and savor her work, yet only a few critical treatments (university theses) have appeared in the United States. Familiarity with her poetry and life story will trigger revision of the accepted interpretations of Nicaraguan history and letters. This volume presents her poetic works and their translation on facing pages, in addition to my substantial interviews with Meneses conducted between 2005 and 2013, which affirm the centrality of her life experiences in her works and highlight the choices confronting her and her peers. Vidaluz Meneses enjoyed a rather carefree and comfortable life as the eldest of six children in the family of a National Guard officer whose early assignments took them to the small cities and towns of rural Nicaragua. When they later settled in the capital, Managua, Meneses was sent to a Catholic "school for rich girls," where acts of charity were part of the curriculum, but many students developed a profound commitment to the poor that questioned the political and social order. As was the custom, Meneses married and began a family, but, against custom, she joined a new wave of women who sought a university education. Her increasing conviction during the 1960s and 70s of the need for radical change and overthrow of the military dictatorship ruling her country since 1933 led to a valiant struggle to transform herself from a traditional woman into an active participant in the dangerous process of revolution. Her story exemplifies the series of passionate life choices made by others of her generation who, like Father Ernesto Cardenal, defined themselves as faith-based revolutionaries, defied their own families, and challenged the values of their class. - 20 - When the Sandinistas lost the 1990 national elections to an alliance of conservative factions, the decade of revolutionary changes came to an abrupt halt. Out of work, divorced, economically destabilized, and fearful of possible retaliations against Sandinista officials, Meneses was disillusioned and shaken by the failure of the potentially transformational revolutionary project. Her perceptions mirrored those of novelist and Sandinista Vice-President Sergio Ramirez: "I always thought the revolution would be a transcendental story in human development, but it wasn't, was it?" (qtd. in Garvin). After 1990, Meneses embarked on a difficult, and continuing, search to reconcile historical sacrifices with contemporary reality, to recast her social role as person, woman, poet, and to find ways to build a new society outside the paradigm of revolution. Vidaluz Meneses provides powerful insight into the poetic process as she identifies particular episodes from which specific poems emerged and explains how she reworked those experiences and turned them into poetry. She presents her perspective as a daughter, wife, and mother whose marriage and family were split apart by political events. She provides her unique access to the "inside story" as a founding official of the Ministry of Culture (1979-1988), and then as university department chair and dean (1991-1996), ecumenical center executive director (1997-2002), and national codirector of a coalition of over 600 independent NGOs (2002-2005)."
Author: Julie Bogart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996242776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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A collection of public domain poems and images to celebrate the practice of poetry teatime with children.
Author: Rhina Polonia Espaillat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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A collection of unforgettable poems, 'Where Horizons Go' is as compelling as it is technically stunning. The book bridges the sometimes vast distances between the personal and the impersonal, the transitory and the permanent, the imagined and the real, the internal and the external, the self and the other. The language here is always clear, always controlled without sacrificing sincerity or honesty. Read this book again and again and be rewarded every time.
Author: Cecilia Vicuña
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195124545
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 603
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The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.
Author: Jorge Argueta
Publisher: Children's Book Press
ISBN: 9780892391653
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Poems for children that evoke the wonder of childhood in rural El Salvador include the relationship with a caring father and the author's confusion and delight in his new urban home.
Author: Miguel Hernández
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226327747
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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In the Spanish-speaking world, Miguel Hernández is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century-equal in distinction to Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. He has never received his just acclaim, however, in the English-speaking world, a victim of the artistic oppression exercised during the period of Francisco Franco's totalitarian regime. Determined to silence the writer Neruda fondly referred to as his "wonderful boy," Franco sentenced Hernández to death, citing as his crime only that he was "poet and soldier to the mother country." Despite the fact that complete and accurate versions of his work were difficult to obtain even in Spanish for nearly fifty years, Hernández went on to achieve legendary status. Now, for the first time, Ted Genoways makes Hernández's extraordinary oeuvre available in an authoritative bilingual edition. Featuring some of the most tender and vigorous poetry on war, death, and social injustice written in the past century, nearly half of the poems in this volume appear in English for the first time, making it the most comprehensive bilingual collection of Hernández's work available. Arranged chronologically, The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández presents Hernández's remarkable emotional range as well as his stylistic evolution from the Romantic shepherd poet to poet of the prison cell. Thorough annotations and introductory essays illuminate the biographical basis for many of Hernández's poems, while a foreword by Robert Bly and an afterword by Octavio Paz provide a striking frame for the work of this essential poet. "What a victory it is to watch springing forth from our murky thicket of half-commercialized poetry the silver boar of Hernández's words-to see the world of paper part so as to allow the language tusks and shoulders to emerge, shining, pressed forward by his genius. This generous selection of Miguel Hernández's work, arranged, shepherded, and largely translated by Ted Genoways, is an immense gift for which all of us should be grateful."-from the Foreword by Robert Bly "To gather Hernández's poetry in such a large volume is to bring one of the 20th century's most important poets to life again. Without Hernandez, the world community of poetry would not be what it is today. The Selected Poems must be read if vital poetry is to continue another 100 years, with Hernández's voice as a cherished example of why great poetry is timeless."—Ray González, Bloomsbury Review "As Philip Levine write in The Kenyon Review, Hernández is 'one of the great talents of the century,' and this collection is a good place to discover (or rediscover) his moving verses."—Virginia Quarterly Review "Vivid, often volatile imagery describes wrenching emotions and events in The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández: A Bilingual Edition. . . . Raw, passionate, despairing and celebratory, these poems are a true discovery."—Publishers Weekly "Arranged in three chronological sections, the poems presented are not the complete works, but they are a large and representative sampling of the best. This is certainly the most comprehensive bilingual edition of Hernández's poetry available. In addition to the poems, the editor includes eight illustrations, important prefatory materials, and a short list of references, and an epilogue by Octavio Paz."—Choice
Author: Pat Mora
Publisher: Children's Book Press
ISBN: 9780892393251
Category : Children's poetry, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"A series of verses, in English and Spanish, about the movement and moods of water around the world and the ways in which water affects a variety of landscapes and cultures."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Ph.D.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514433559
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Bilingual poems summarize personal, family, cultural, memoirs and professional experiences in verse. Our unique Human trait or Love is the central theme. An original Little Things are Hugh, Heavy, Accumulate signs of kindness, Love! Others help bring deceased family and loved ones to life in verse. Still others like Aunt Emma, Uncle Bill, Peace, Harmony, Love, and Colors, Memoirs of Love represent visions and thoughts of World Peace, hopes and dreams of individuals that influenced my life. The Poems too are dedicated to Biological and Academic Daughters and Sons who are extremely important. Their Love, Youth, Courage, Strength and Hunger for Knowledge were continuously most inspirational.
Author: Lori M. Carlson
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606285513
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For use in schools and libraries only. A collection of poems in Spanish and English celebrates the Spanish-American experience of growing up in a dual-cultural environment and includes works by such acclaimed writers as Sandra Cisneros, Martin Espada and Gary Soto.
